People Share Weird and Hilarious Compliments They Got from Strangers

You know when people tell you that you have a nice smile or beautiful hair?

Yeah, these aren’t those kind of compliments.

Things are about to get weird in there, in 3, 2, 1…

1. Why do people say “no homo”??? Dumbest thing…

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2. I’m right there with you… WTF was that about?

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3. Well, would you?!?

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4. Hey, not a bad compliment, all thing considered…

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5. Okay, I legit laughed at this. Because terrorism!

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6. Spoiler alert… we’re ALL soulless!

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7. Well, your loss… I guess?

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8. Oh jeezus…

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9. Granny!

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10. Crazy like a fox!

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11. Open wide!

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12. Just banana things. You wouldn’t understand.

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13. Dem hips gurrrrrrl!

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14. It’s okay to be normal!

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15. Yeah, super creepy.

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16. OMG! What the fuck is this?!?

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17. Ankles for DAYSSSSS!

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18. Awwwww!

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19. ACHOOOO!!!

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20. Okay, legit good compliment. Not weird.

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21. Sooo… ya got any weed?

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OMG, I’m still laughing at that guy petting that girl’s hair.

That is insanely creepy! Who does that?!?

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20 Nannies Confess How They Really Feel About Their Host Families

An au pair is a nanny, but just a little bit fancier. They travel with families to a foreign country to take care of the family’s kids, in exchange for a place to stay, and, of course, money.

What’s the job like? What kind of weird circumstances do they get into? Do they end up screwing the parents?

These 20 people working as au pairs open up about their thoughts, feelings and struggles about their unique line of work.

Eye opening confessions in 3, 2, 1…

20. Haha, you’re not very good at this, are you?

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19. Well, it’s a different country and a strange family…

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18. Yeah, those aren’t really great years…

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17. First affair!

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16. “I need to GTFO!”

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15. Some au pairs are considered part of the family, eventually. So don’t feel guilty!

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14. Yeah, that’s a tough schedule. But that’s the job.

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13. THIS!

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12. Yeah, the relationship with the parents can make a difference!

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11. That’s fair!

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10. Ack! Icy heart melting…

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9. Fight. That. Urge.

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8. Everybody has their reasons!

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7. Again… fight those urges!

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6. They’ll get over it. Trust me.

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5. Ugh. The parents should help out if this kind of stuff happens.

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4. This happens A LOT.

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3. Yeah, that’s a problem. Tough to talk to them about it, though.

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2. ARRGH! Now that’s frustrating AF!

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1. Oh, so you get to be the bad guy. That sucks! But, ya know, money…

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Again… never develop a crush on the dad. Just don’t do it. That’s like au pair rule #1!

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People Share What They Found When They Cleaned out a Dead Family Member’s Home

Ugh, this is never an easy thing.

Pretty much all of us have family members, and we’ll have to deal with their possessions when they die. When that happens and we suddenly have to go through a life’s worth of stuff… we often find things we least expect. That can be good and that can be bad.

Here are 14 times people found a little bit of both

1. Who She Really Was

“My dad’s grandmother was a huge hoarder. When she died, he had to go clear out the house, which was no easy task. My dad always tells us about how you couldn’t even see the walls of the house because of the amount of stuff she had lying around, and how she looked so tiny walking around in the little hallways she managed to make in between all kinds of objects.

After several days of trying to clear out the house, my dad finally made it to her bedroom.

It was completely filled with all kinds of things, ranging from like 20 kinds of brooms to several harps she had bought during her long trips to Europe. He found all kinds of surprising stuff, but the one that ended up being the craziest one was a letter.

He found it in her bedside table, and it caught his attention because of the wax seal and what was written on the envelope ‘To be opened by my daughter, only after my death’.

My dad called his mom immediately, since she was his grandmother’s only daughter. After getting her permission, he opened the envelope and found a letter and a birth certificate.

In the letter, his grandmother explained how she was never able to have children, and how ashamed she and her husband always felt. She always wanted to have a child, so they decided to take a very long trip through Europe, from which they would come back with a baby.

This baby was my dad’s mom, who always looked a bit different from her family as she was white and had blue eyes. They found her in an orphanage run by some nuns in the north of France and immediately fell in love with her. Adoption was a big taboo at the time, so no one ever knew about it. The story they told was that she had gotten pregnant during their trip and had given birth to the baby in Europe.

They brought her back to Mexico and registered her as a new born, even though she was already several years old.

My grandmother lived all her life thinking she was her parent’s biological daughter. At 45, through a letter, she found out that she was adopted, that she was actually older than what she always thought and that she was actually French, not Mexican.”

2. She Wanted To Die

“My grandmother passed after a blood clot incident. She had several conditions that no doubt led up to this. For example, her medical team decided not to treat her cancer because they figured she would die before it would spread.

My father, uncle, and my sisters were left to clean out her things from her apartment. She had a lot of old, expired food such as ketchup that had gone completely black. We also found things from when she was well and social, like her quilting and handmade soaps, which were beautiful.

She has a quilt that had the names of all of our family, but the names were sewn in the individuals’ handwriting style.

However, one day it was just my dad and me going through her bedside table. We found her journal. Toward the end, all of the entries were about how lonely she was, how she only got to see her grandchildren twice a year, and how her own children never saw her unless they needed something.

She said she wanted to die. My dad threw it away so his brother would never have to see it.”

3. My Brother Had A Different Father

“I found out that my mother had been lying to me for years about numerous things – the biggest of them was who my brother’s father is.

I had always just thought that it was my dad. She had never told me any different until I was about 13. I can’t even recall how it came up, but she told me that my brother’s father was actually our close family friend. I was shocked to say the least, but I believed her because they did kind of resemble each other and I was young so I didn’t even care that much.

Well, when she died, I was cleaning out her filing cabinet and found the results of the paternity test that she had done on our close family friend. It plainly stated that he was not my brother’s dad.

It was pretty obvious that he had never seen these results because I also found receipts written for both our family friend and my dad. Our family friend was paying $800 a month in child support, and my dad was paying $300 per child.

She was lying to them both, saying they were both my brother’s dad, to get money out of them.

So many more truths were uncovered from this finding because I talked to them both and found out just how many lies my mom was feeding me. I can’t tell you how much it hurt. It’s been six years since I found out a lot of the truth and I still wonder how much more of my life was just a figment of my mother’s imagination.”

4. The Horrible Girlfriend

“I cleaned out my cousin’s room after his death and painted and re-decorated it because he was living with my mom and she couldn’t bear to see his room. While I wasn’t the one that found it, he was holding his cell phone when he died and the person that found him saw a string of texts that we knew led up to his death. The texts were from his girlfriend with instructions on how to use substances. My cousin had been clean for a year at the time of his death.

His final text was, ‘I think I’m gonna die.’

She didn’t even try to call 911.”

5. Finding Something Shocking

“My mom died from a long battle with lung failure. She had briefly moved in with extended family in another state with a better climate, where she was improving. The plan was for the rest of the family to join her in a year or so. Within two weeks, my brother almost died from a brain infection which required numerous surgeries. She moved back to help care for him, rapidly deteriorated herself, and died.

I found some of her diaries and flipped through them to find the entry from the previous year about my brother. Morbid curiosity, I just wanted to read her thoughts. Her entry from the night before brother’s near-fatal illness said that my father saw a demonic presence in the house, and it frightened him. It was a black humanoid shape, emanating evil and menace. It was in his room, then left, he didn’t know where it went.

The next day my brother almost died in a freak medical occurrence that doctors still can’t explain the cause of, and the resulting chain of events killed my mother. Standing in the basement with that diary, I was stunned. We’d seen something similar years earlier, and now it was back. I felt like something had cursed us, and wanted to kill us. I was terrified.

Ultimately I didn’t talk to my dad about it, or mention it to any of my siblings.

I hid that particular diary.”

6. A Complicated Find

“My dad died 15 years ago and to this day, my feelings towards him are very complicated. I always knew my dad was a bit secretive and kept a lot to himself, but I didn’t realize how much until he died. When he died, we found several surprising things.

1. He had several hidden bank accounts and insurance policies we were unaware of. Why? Who knows. He did have a lot of financial things set up for my mom incase something happened to him.

So, that was a good thing. She had no idea about everything that he had set aside for her. He actually made sure my mom would be well cared for.

2. There was also evidence of his long time affair with another woman, including audio tapes he had recorded for her and had yet to send that expressed his undying love for her. Listening to them was devastating and something I still can’t tell my mom about.

I was torn about sending the tapes to this woman because they were intended for her. I ended up destroying them. No good could come from them.”

7. Nope

“When my brother died, he didn’t leave a note or anything, but he was an aspiring musician and we found his song lyrics. I never would have guessed he was in such a dark place to write those kinds of things. I was up all that night with those words stuck in my head, he seemed so hopeless for everything else but he always hid it from us. Later on, I went back in his room by myself just to take it all in, I found a somewhat hidden notebook with even more, including something he’d written about feeling sorry for how this would affect my sister and somewhat blaming my Mom for how he felt.

I debated for hours if I should tear out that page or not because I knew it would hurt my mom terribly just to see what he thought of her when she saw him in such a good light, as such a sweet and loving son.

However, what really hurt the most though was after seeing what he wrote about my sister, I looked for something, anything he might have written about me or left for me. There was nothing, I searched for so long because I just wanted some kind of last words to hold on to, something to show he thought of me but never found anything.”

8. Early Suicide

“I had a cousin who committed suicide at 12 years old. This was a kid that was always a bit of a loner and kind of a book worm but also seemed smarter than other kids and was very mature for his age. Always very polite but quiet and would spend more time watching than participating in anything. There certainly didn’t seem like there was anything that would cause him to end how own life. His family seemed close and normal.

It did turn out that he was bullied quite a bit at school. I guess it was because he never fought back. About 3 months after his death, both his parents started to suggest to my parents that I should be the one to go through his room. I was 18 at the time and since my cousin and I weren’t that close, I guess his parents thought I would have an easier time with it.

I agreed to do it. I started separating all his stuff.

Clothes, toys, books, keepsakes that I though his parents might want to save, etc. As I got deeper into his closet I suspected might actually find a stash and sure enough, there in the back under a bunch of old books in the bottom of a box I found a smaller, flatter box that was magazine sized. SCORE!

Not so much. There were no magazines. There was however lots of loose papers, a sketchbook and some Polaroids.

This was in the 90’s so there was no such things as internet smut for a family of religious people that didn’t own a computer. Nor were digital cameras a thing. But there were instant cameras and my cousin had one.

I started to go through the papers which were all drawings and sketches. I think at first my mind wasn’t processing what I was looking at. It took me a bit before I realized what my cousin had been drawing.

It was all drawings of bloody scenes. Some detailed some just gory. Nasty stuff. Anyone and anything was there. Sometimes there was occult-like stuff but not very often. I do remember a few pages all in a row that had the words ‘Am I the devil?’ written in it over and over.

At this point I did NOT want to look a the photos but I did anyway. My cousin had apparently escalated beyond just drawing pictures.

I am almost in tears again just thinking about it and this was over 20 years ago.

I never told his parents or anyone else about it. It wasn’t out of any sense of decency. I just wanted to forget about what I had seen or at least pretend I hadn’t found it for my own sake. So I let everyone continue to think it was the bullying that pushed him over the edge. It may well have been but I wonder if part of it was because he saw what he was becoming and decided to stop himself before things got worse.”

9. Gramps Was in the CIA?!?!

“My grandpa was in the CIA and helped oversee the beginning of the sky marshal program. I found a box with a legitimate red top secret stamp across it… so of course I opened it!

It had a bunch of what my 15 year old self would call ‘boring papers’ but something did catch my eye

One of the things I found was a pamphlet. The cover showed a highly detailed schematic of a 747 jet. The title read something like: ‘747: Weak Zones’

My dad somehow called someone from the FBI who came over, took one look, and then called someone else. He waited with us until someone who didn’t work for the FBI, but had clearance over this stuff, arrived.

The first guy proceeded to leave while the other man asked us where everything was. We showed him the boxes. After looking, he took the boxes, loaded them in his car and drove away.

A week later, the house was robbed and a lot of my grandparents special things were taken including several large file cabinets

I’ve always thought it must’ve been the government doing a clean sweep.”

10. Don’t Wanna Know

“My father was a successful business man who was originally from Detroit. He grew up in a dangerous and low-income neighborhood, but he was able to get into a good school and complete an engineering degree. Eventually he owned his own machine shop and things were going well. After 2008’s crash, the stress got to him.

Shortly after I left for college, my mother forced my father to check in to rehab for his crippling addiction to drinking.

He made it a few weeks sober, but relapsed. This happened two more times. My mother divorced him and he holed up in an apartment for a few months before ultimately drinking himself to death.

I cleaned out his apartment and found significant amounts of his rehab literature. I was happier not knowing details, but I did not want to throw out any paperwork that was significant for settling the estate. While combing through, I found a worksheet where he wrote a timeline of his relationship with substances and drink.

I found out that he smoked a few times as a 13 year old boy, he started smoking other substances at age 11, and by the time he was 14, he was smoking daily and drinking on weekends. I was stunned; it certainly explained a lot, but I was much happier not knowing. I can’t imagine growing up in an environment where parents would be oblivious or apathetic to that.”

11. The “Good” Book

“After my paternal grandmother died, it took us about 4 months for anyone to be up to cleaning out her house. My grandma was an organized pack rat. In her buffet in her kitchen, she had drawers full of old pharmacy bags folded neatly at put away. My dad told me it was likely a hold over from the depression where you save everything to use again.

Anyway, I came across the old family Bible. One of those big deals where they record births and deaths and it was like finding some huge treasure because she NEVER let us touch it or look through it, she kept it packed away.

I was looking through it, absorbing names of her family because while the woman loved to talk about her family (her husband and four boys), she never talked about her other family. She never talked about her parents or siblings or childhood. Nothing. Even my dad knew very little about her family before she married.

So I was flipping through the Bible and tucked between some pages was what looked like a bill of sale or receipt of some kind.

Upon closer inspection, I realized that it was a bill of sale/receipt. For my grandmother. Her father had sold her, sold her, to my grandfathers brother. I don’t even remember for how much, I was just in a state of shock. I knew that she had been taken in to help care for my grandfather’s dying wife, but I had no idea she was sold. I mean… I don’t know. This happened probably in the 30’s, early 40’s in the rural South but still.

It changed how I felt about my grandfather and his family. I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it.”

12. Never Want To See It Again

“My mom and I had to clean out my aunt’s room. She died at 52.

She never married, no kids, and had weight issues. That being said, she treated my brother and I like her own. We were all really close.

We found an unmarked book on her nightstand which ended up being a journal. The first page said, ‘I hate the way I look. I hate that I’m not married. I hate that I don’t have kids.’

We closed it and tossed it.

I’m guessing it was one of those weird self help plans where you write your thoughts out. Didn’t make it any easier. You have no idea how much I wish I never saw that book.”

13. Not Quite A True Englishman

“My family is Irish/Australian. My grandfather was an olive-skinned, charming Englishman who married an Australian bar maid – my grandmother. After the death of my grandpa, we found a letter and Republic of India passport in one of his jackets. It was a full confession that he had hidden the fact that he was Indian – and not English – from my grandma and our family. Not only that, he also had another family back in India.

This was especially shocking considering how white my skin is, and people still don’t believe the story when I tell it. Still amazes me that he successfully hid the secret for almost 50 years, and literally brought it to his grave.”

14. Turns Out She Was A Stranger

“After I came home from a 4 month underway on a submarine, things were weird between my wife and I. Fast forward a bit, I came home from a weekend out and found her body in the spare bedroom.

Over the next few days cleaning out the house, I found countless amounts of substances and paraphernalia I couldn’t even identify. I found a ton of weird notes, scratchings, and just scraps of paper that all had to do with substance use.

When cleaning up her electronic mess, computers, phone, online accounts, etc. I found out she was a lifelong cheater. Which went several layers deep. She was in a very serious relationship with her ‘best friend’ which, honestly I more or less knew about. But always sort of figured it was emotional, not physical. In addition to being with her BFF, she had also seen many other people over the years.

When the person you’ve dated since high school, and been married to for nearly 2 decades, is a complete stranger, it’s really not something you can describe.”

Have a story about a time when you cleaned out somebody’s possessions?

Let us know in the comments!

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10 Women Share Their Awful Experiences in the Bedroom

Everyone’s had bad sex at some point. But sometimes those situations can be insanely awkward and not something you’ll ever want to remember.

But of course you do. Because we always remember the really weird shit that happens to us.

What’s your worst experience? Are they as bad as these 10 women’s experiences?

1. Hahaha, well, that sucks!

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2. Unplugging the cork…

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3. HA! Crisis averted!

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4. Yikes.

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5. Ouch!

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6. Ewwwwww

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7. That’s the worst thing? Hmmm…

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8. Milk me?

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9.  It happens to everybody!

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10. Sounds like the perfect storm of suck!

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And scene!

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12 Stories That Will Make You Think Twice About Dining and Dashing

Shame on you if you’ve dined and dashed before. Because you do know that what your food cost comes out of the wait staff’s paycheck, right? Yeah, that’s a thing. At least in some cases.

So why do people do it? These 12 people did the deed and some reveal why…

1. Don’t do it again!

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2. Good!

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3. Hope your girl didn’t like it too much…

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4. Not a good excuse.

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5. Get to it!

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6. I can’t be angry at foster kids for doing this…

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7. If somebody is seriously not waiting on you, I can see this..

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8. Well DUH!

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9. Haha, ya think? Because you’re a thief? Crazy!

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10. Hmmm… something tells me you’re gonna get caught.

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11. Just go up and ask!

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12. Oh, there’s a bad part? Poor baby…

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So, have you ever done this? How’d it go? Did you feel guilty AF?

Hope so…

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11 Homewreckers Admit Why They Destroyed Marriages

What’s the absolute worst thing you’ve ever done in your life?

Yeah, that’s bad… but have you ever wrecked a marriage?

These 10 people did and are finally admitting how they feel about it…

1. Holy shit! You are straight up EVIL!

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2. Yes. That is correct.

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3. Ohhhh, so it’s about power is it?

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4. Just wait… it’ll catch up with you…

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5. Tell yourself any stupid story you want.

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6. Yeah, that’s a good reason… NOT!

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7. You can get that kind of attention from other people…

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8. Yes, you can stop. That’s a lie.

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9. Sometimes these relationships CAN have happy endings… but not often.

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10. Somebody needs to work on their self esteem…

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11. Yeah, it does work out sometime. Still….

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Shocking and scandalous, no?

Just don’t become a home wrecker, please. Cool?

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These Horrible Renting Situations Might Make You Want to Buy a House

From crazy landlords to horrible roommates, being a renter can be so precarious and vulnerable.

Maybe that’s why these people are sharing their shocking situations. Because you’ve gotta get that stuff off your chest!

1. Haha… how would she even know?!

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2. Okay, not cool!

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3. Truth

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4. Ugh! Sleeping in heat is so shitty…

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5. I would move out IMMEDIATELY.

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6. GTFO!!!

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7. Don’t hate the player…

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8. Such a bummer!

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9. STOMP STOMP STOMP!!!

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10. How do people think this is okay?!

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11. Yeah, but you should. And I guess you did. To us!

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12. Haha… well….

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13. That would be insane!

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14. Oh… I like that revenge!!!

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Got any horror stories you want to share?

Let us know in the comments!

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People Share Their Stories About the Unconventional Ways They Found Love

It’s hard to find love out there.

We tend to meet people in pretty normal ways: through friends, working out at the gym, grabbing coffee or at work. And technology has only made it easier to set up an initial meeting.

But sometimes you get REALLY lucky and meet somebody is a completely weird way that solidifies your relationship from the very start.

These 13 people did and share their stories now!

1. Wait… what?!

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2. Haha, yeah, that’s some balls right there…

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3. Is that how that’s supposed to work?!

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4. Now THAT is a secret!

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5. The old “spill coffee on your crotch” trick. Nice!

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6. Oh behave!

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7. How many of these bars are out there?!

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8. OMFG!

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9. Maybe you’d still be at the wedding?

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10. I love the details in this one!

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11. Crazy in love!

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12. What did you do to get there?!

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13. Don’t hate the player…

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Did you meet in an unconventional way? Share your story in the comments… if you dare!

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16 People Share Their Most Wholesome Secrets

Do you have any wholesome secrets you’ve never shared with anybody?

Whether you answered yes or no, you should definitely check out this askreddit thread. Over 6K+ people shared theirs and we have some of the best!

Enjoy…

1. “I can’t even tell you how happy she was to wake up the next day…”

“My little sister was extremely sick with pneumonia in the ICU one Christmas when she was 6. This happened often around this time of year for her because of her asthma, but this time it was worse. She was so sick and tired, she lost track of the days in the hospital even though Christmas was approaching fast.

People dressed as elves would come in and bring gifts and my sister would say, ‘Am I going to make it back in time for Christmas?’ She was so worried and already so upset after being poked and prodded by doctors, draining fluid from her lungs and trying to get her better.

Christmas came and we decided not to tell her she missed it. We promised her. We weren’t going to ruin her Christmas!

On the 27th, while my dad worked and mom was at the hospital, I got a list from my mom and went to the store to get her gifts. I spent all night wrapping them.

The next day, they released my sister from the hospital and we told her it was Christmas Eve! I even promised her she could sleep in my bed that night, under all the Christmas lights I hung up, so she could wake me up as soon as it was Christmas morning.

I can’t even tell you how happy she was to wake up the next day and she couldn’t stop saying how much of a Christmas miracle it was!

She’s 13 and still remarks how amazing it was she made it back before Christmas, after being so horribly sick and stuck in ICU. Maybe someday we’ll tell her.”

2. “I like to drop change into them…”

“When I was a kid, I used to always twist the quarter machines on the way into stores just in case.

Got lucky a couple of times and got a few free toys.

Now that I’m grown, if I’m leaving a store with them, I like to drop change into them if I have it and leave them half twisted.”

3. “She is a quiet, sweet, helpful person.”

“Without revealing too much information, my previous job had a major perk: a lottery system in which the winners got to accompany a group to various locations in the world for a hybrid vacation/work trip.

I won the lottery one year and was selected to go to Istanbul.

I heard a coworker talking to her spouse on the phone about how bummed she was she did not get it (she was selected as my backup, but did not know who she was backing up).

She had hoped to visit a long-lost family member. She is a quiet, sweet, helpful person. She’s very behind the scenes and rather underappreciated.

I gave up my spot due to a ‘prior commitment.’

She got to go instead. I had a great time looking at her pictures.”

4. “…told him to say that she paid it earlier in the month.”

“My Aunt was gonna be short for her rent.

I paid the landlord and told him to say that she paid it earlier in the month.

She was so happy about it.

I made steaks for supper and paid extra on other bills so she’d be ahead of them.”

5. “All of this was part of my master plan to put LJ over.”

“Back when Madden ’95 for the Sega Genesis came out, I was a beast. I was more untouchable than the ’85 Bears were.

We would gather up in my dorm room, me and five friends, and we would take turns playing.

Side note: I miss the era of getting into the same room and watching other people play each other on video games.

It was super fun.

We got pretty into the whole Madden ’95 tournament concept. We ended up keeping stats on Wins-Losses and Points Per Game and Points Allowed Per Game.

Five minute quarters. We set up a mini schedule of everyone playing each other twice (that was our season).

At the end of the season, I was undefeated, my Points For Average was over 80 and I don’t remember what my Points Against Average was, but I do remember that I’d given up 13 points in the season.

Everyone else was pretty good. Our one buddy RS was probably the second best at the game, then the other guys were good and evenly matched.

We go through the playoffs, I crush everyone.

Our buddy LJ comes in and he’s not really all that great at video games, but he lucked out because one of his playoff games was against RS and he won by forfeit because RS had a test coming up and didn’t have time to play his game, and one of the games he played our other buddy CK, who was the unluckiest jerk in the world.

LJ beat CK on a last minute Hail Mary to get the right to play me.

So here we are. The title game. LJ is the ’66 Chiefs.

I’m the ’85 Bears. I started out showboating. I got up 35-0 on him in the first quarter. I lined up to onside kick and told him I would let him run back 7 in a row and tie it up, then give him a go ahead for good measure.

All of this was part of my master plan to put LJ over.

The final score was 69-66, LJ winning it on a last-second field goal kick.

I was so good at the game (and at acting) that I made it look like I legitimately lost.

I know it sounds kind of stupid to mention this as a big secret. It was just a video game, after all.

But to us, at that moment in time, it was a big deal. My roommates lost their freaking minds and almost carried LJ out of the room on their shoulders.

I think they ended up buying him pizza and drinks that night to celebrate.

To this day, no one knows I threw the game.”

6. “A few times, he had some sores on his foot…”

“I used to have to regularly travel abroad for work to this one specific town. I would stay near the main square so it got to be I would recognize the homeless people around my area.

It was a difficult time in my life, so I was drinking a little more than was healthy (nothing during the daytime or that would interfere with work, just at night to go to bed), so most nights I would go out to pick something up.

Some homeless people asked for money, some were straight up and asked for a can or two. I always felt bad doing the whole ‘pat my pockets and shrug’ routine to them as I exited the shop, knowing I was just blowing my money away on drinks for myself.

In that moment, was I so different than these guys?

I finally got up the courage to acknowledge/talk to one of them, he asked for a can or two of drinks, and I asked what kind he wanted (high percentage, of course).

In the store, I bought stuff for me, and I also bought this guy two cans, but there was a catch. In the bag were a few other things I bought him, a few sandwiches, some milk, and some sports drink.

So that was my routine.

For over a year, I would be in this town once a month or so, and I would go around and get this man a few cans and also made sure he had something to eat.

I learned that he had a shelter he could sleep in at night, I learned his name, I would shake his hand every time I saw him, chat for a bit, and wish him well.

A few times, he had some sores on his foot so I bought bandages, antiseptic cream, stuff like that.

It’s not a big deal, but I always kept it a secret.

Even when my girlfriend came with me on one of my trips, I just told her I was going to go for a walk at night to clear my head, and I went and visited this man and bought him a few drinks and some food, never told her about it.

I’ve never told anyone – I think that would ruin it for me – it’s not about me or getting a slap on the back, it was just about treating this guy like a fellow man, even for a few minutes.

Maybe I was doing something wrong, maybe that’s not the right way to help someone, I don’t know.

All I figured was this guy had more reason to drink than I did, his life looked rough. If he wanted to get messed up, he was going to find a way to get messed up anyway, and this way I figured at least he’d get some nutrition, and someone who would shake his hand, call him by name and chat and look him in the eye.

I haven’t been back to that town for years.

I don’t know if he remembers me. I think of him often. I hope he’s doing ok.”

7. “I created about 150 little paper envelopes…”

“Back in college, I liked to do special things for my friends in my dorm for Valentine’s Day. One year, I taped chocolate boxes to their doors, and the next year I taped bags of heart-shaped cookies.

My friends would find out that it was me one way or another, but it was still nice to do something nice for the people I care about.

The next year, after the majority of my dorm friends, had graduated, I still wanted to do something nice for the people in my dorm.

I created about 150 little paper envelopes, to cover everyone that would be getting a special surprise.

At around 2 a.m. I set out to taping these envelopes to all the doors on my floor (2 people per room) as well as all the RA’s on all the other floors.

I then filled every tiny envelope with a few heart-shaped Reese’s and Snickers candies. It probably took about 2 hours to completely finish.

I know a few chocolates really aren’t that big of a gift, but I wanted everybody to feel some love on Valentine’s Day.

The next day, some of the RA’s posted about it on Facebook.

They were saying that we had the best residents. It made me feel really warm and fuzzy inside, but I never let any of them know that I was the one that did it.”

8. “I thought that was the end of the story.”

“When I was 17 years old, my BFF and I decided to take the snowmobiles out for a ride in the blizzard.

We thought it would be amazing to hit some fresh forming powder and drifts. The visibility was low so we stuck to the main roads.

We ended up on a desolate road with two homes and acres and acres of farmland.

As we got close to the homes we noticed some lights and went over to see what was going on. It turned out that the old couple living there had ventured out to the store to get food in case they got snowed in.

They made the long drive and everything went fine (they had to have hit several drifts that were 1-4 feet tall).

Things only went wrong when they slowed down to turn into the drive. They didn’t dare leave their car out because they feared a snow plow would hit it.

My friend and I in full snow gear, helmets and face masks dug the car out and shoveled the driveway and made sure they got the car in the garage.

I thought that was the end of the story.

I didn’t even mention anything to my parents. Lo and behold, the next day at church this couple was there.

Our church gives time for the congregation to get up and talk about their beliefs/faith-building stories.

Sure enough, the old man gets up and starts telling about their trip to the store last night. He talked about getting stuck and worrying he would never get his car unstuck and that it would be destroyed by a snow plow.

He then said two angels appeared, barely spoke, unstuck his car and disappeared as quickly as they arrived.

He said that he had been pleading with the Lord for some help but figured it would never arrive because no one ever travels the road.

My mom looked at me and knew it was me. She didn’t say anything, I didn’t say anything.”

9. “He got a $700 ring and he said he’d work day and night to pay me back…”

“Last Christmas, my cousin really wanted Pokemon Sun and a 3DS. My Aunt and Uncle said she had too many games but I proposed I get it for her, and they agreed.

Come Christmas Eve, and I got the exclusive 1/2000 limited edition Sun/Moon boxes for her, but not the 3DS yet.

Well…Turns out they were sold out everywhere. She’s my favorite cousin, and I promised her, so I had to do something.

I already had a 3DS with Pokemon Sun, so I factory reset my 3DS and wrapped it and gave it to her. No one knows how I got the 3DS but were surprised I got one on Christmas Eve for her.

Another secret that I kept is that my friend, who’s still working through flight mechanic school, is madly in love with his girlfriend.

Well, he wanted to propose to her for Christmas as a gift. He didn’t have much money for a ring and wanted to get a $50 ring off Etsy.

I didn’t like that idea, so I brought him to the mall and gave him a budget of $1k to get a ring for his girlfriend.

He got a $700 ring and he said he’d work day and night to pay me back, and I told him no need. I still have the voicemail he and his fiancée left on my phone when they got engaged.

He and I are the only two people who know the truth behind that Christmas miracle. He’s also the same friend I’ve let squat at my house for almost a year for no charge while he gets his degree.

Nobody but him and I know he lives with me while he gets on his feet.

(Yes both of these incidents took place around the same Christmas, this past one happened 2016)

I’ve done more in the similar vein to this, such as purchasing and providing a few truckloads of food to the local Korean church so the homeless of the city could eat that Thanksgiving.

I’ve done the same for Christmas times, whether it was food or presents for the homeless who can’t afford them.

I always keep my name anonymous because I feel like it defeats the purpose of doing something out of good will as someone will always think you’re putting your name out there to brag.

I just like the feeling of knowing someone out there had a much better day because someone was generous enough.”

10. ‘That’s where my socks have been going!’

“I took my science geek housemate to Switzerland to go to CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) for the weekend.

I tricked him into taking Friday and Monday off work, stole his passport, and have been slowly stealing his clothes from him when he hung them up to dry.

I’m an expert packer, so I fit all we need for the weekend in one backpack so it won’t look unusual when we leave for our ‘day out at the beach’ on Friday.

I was ill for a while and he was practically my nurse, so I owe him.

I LOVE surprises.

The plan worked!

My housemate had no suspicions at all. I was crazily worked up this morning because I was scared about missing the train, then missing the flight.

He was annoyingly casual about timings this morning seeing as he thought it was a normal day out. Luckily, he knows I’m a general stresshead anyway so found nothing unusual about me rushing him out the door.

We got off the train at the airport, earlier than he was expecting, obviously.

I told him to trust me so he followed. I think he thought we were swapping trains or something. Then I handed him a card that said thank you for all the things he did for me when I was sick.

Literally a long list of individual things like ‘for moving my glass of water so I could reach it from my bed, buying me emergency sandwiches when the hospital food was crap, sitting in the uncomfortable chair while my parents visited so they could have the sofa,’ etc.

At the end of the card, it said, ‘Do you want the good news or bad news first?’ He asked for the bad news and I told him, unfortunately, we weren’t going to make it to the beach today.

The good news was that we were going on an adventure instead.

I led him away from the station and into the airport building.

He was looking really confused like he didn’t know whether to be worried or excited. It was quite crowded so we couldn’t really talk properly.

I think he knew we were going somewhere but didn’t want to believe it because he didn’t have any stuff with him.

When we got to a quieter spot, just before security I said, ‘Do you want to go somewhere cool?’ He didn’t really know what to say so I handed over his passport and the toiletries that needed to be transferred from my bag over into his and I think that’s when he finally believed we were actually doing something.

Because I was high on the buzz of surprising him, I wanted to drag it out a bit more.

I could see he was still confused but getting excited so I didn’t worry about him getting too stressed out.

So I asked him not to look at his boarding pass when he scanned it to get through the electronic gates through to security.

We got through with plenty of time because I’m one of those panickers who actually arrive hours before the flight even though we only had hand luggage.

I sat my housemate down to an airport breakfast and that’s when I spelled it out. I broke it to him that his brother and dad lied to him about the family event on Monday and that they knew about my plan to take him away somewhere.

I told him not to expect to be coming home until Monday evening and not to worry because I’d sorted travel money, someone is moving into our house this evening to look after the cat, and that I had been gradually stealing his clothes for weeks so had all he needed.

(‘That’s where my socks have been going!’)

After I’d finished explaining my trickery, I got him to finally look at his boarding pass.

He got excited about going to Geneva but he didn’t realize why we were going there. So I said, ‘You know how I was asking you what CERN was the other day?

Well, I actually already knew all about it. Do you want to go there? Good, because I’ve booked us a tour.’

That was when he really lit up.

SUCCESS!

My only failure was I stole some shorts from him because the weather forecast is looking really good for the weekend.

Turns out they’re his ‘around the house’ shorts and not suitable for the public. He bought a new pair at the airport.”

11. “If I can spare any child from that, I would, so I did.”

“My daughter isn’t biologically mine. My ex became pregnant via an affair. One of many, I came to find.

After the paternity test confirmed it, I almost left, but I had a thought.

This baby girl did not ask for this situation.

She is innocent in all this and down a father since the dude split and disappeared. I knew her mother was not able to cope with motherhood, as she was only barely coping with childless adulthood some of the time.

I stepped in.

I’ve always wanted to be a father and I’m all about helping children at a disadvantage because of my own crappy childhood.

If I can spare any child from that, I would, so I did.

She carries my name. Looks like me oddly enough (her bio dad looks like a younger me), and is now 3 with a 1st-grade education.

She speaks very well. She has a very good imagination. She is as happy as a clam and unabused. I teach her mother how to actually be a mother, and I take my daughter for extra time, all the time.

It’s the best, most fulfilling decision I have ever made.

I may not be her father, but I’m darn sure her daddy.”

12. “…she still has no idea I had anything to do with it.”

“My best friend in high school was homely. In our senior year, she kept saying how she didn’t give a crap about prom…

Even though all of our friends were going and I happen to know she loves dancing. She’s super cool and down to earth, so it was honestly unbelievable that she didn’t care about prom, but I had a hunch it was because she didn’t think anyone would ask her.

There was a boy in our grade who I had a few classes with and saw at the occasional party — one of those people that ran in the same circles and you talk to now and then.

He was a very laid back, nice guy. I asked him if he had a date for the prom or anyone in mind. He said no, so I suggested he ask my friend.

He was totally game! I asked him to please keep it between us that I brought it up, because, ‘It’s way more fun to remember being asked to prom as a complete surprise.’

I also nudged him in the direction of asking her in a cute way, and he devised a plan on his own.

She came to school a few days later beaming, saying she would be going to the prom, because she ‘couldn’t let the guy down.’

It was wonderful. We all had a great time. We’ve been friends for 24 years, and she still has no idea I had anything to do with it.

She never will.”

13. “…I sometimes intentionally annoy the cat so that he will go snuggle with my husband instead…”

“I’ve had my cat for 18 years. I’ve had my husband for three years. He always wanted a cat and never had one.

Their love is strong and true, but obviously, the cat is slightly more attached to/familiar with me.

My husband loves that cat so much and gets a little bit of a thrill out of the idea that the cat loves us equally even though I had a 15-year head start.

What my husband doesn’t know is that I sometimes intentionally annoy the cat so that he will go snuggle with my husband instead, because it is so dang cute how giddy my husband gets about it.”

14. “She cried harder and thanked everyone and asked for a manager…”

“I work at a grocery store and a woman and her little girl went through with a cart full of groceries.

It was the first week of the month and she was using her EBT card. For some reason, it was declined and she started crying.

She thanked us for trying it a few times and she didn’t understand why it wasn’t working. It was payday and I didn’t make a whole lot as I was only a part-time worker.

However, I went over to the bank in the store and cashed my check. I went to our customer service desk where she was on the phone with the bank and gave it over quietly.

My coworker paid for the rest and we didn’t make it a big deal. She wasn’t paying attention and was just handed the receipt and told the lady to go home and enjoy the day, we took care of it.

She cried harder and thanked everyone and asked for a manager and was telling her little girl that this was a miracle.

We had to tell her to not get a manager because where I work giving money during your shift is grounds for suspension.

I will always remember her gratitude.”

15. “…I purposely drop pennies on the ground for her to find.”

“I secretly drop pennies. For many years, my Uncle used to bend down and pick up every penny he came across, which was maddening to my Aunt who was worried the neighbors would see him and assume they were poor, needing every penny the could find.

They used to tease each other about it.

My Uncle got cancer and passed away after a very long struggle.

After the funeral, we were walking to the car and my Aunt saw a penny, and said, ‘Oh John is thinking of me. He left this penny for me today.’

So whenever I am around my Aunt, I purposely drop pennies on the ground for her to find.

I haven’t been caught yet, and I hope I never do.”

16. “He told me how there was a bank error and someone deposited $3,000 into his bank account.”

“My best friend’s mom passed away from cancer four years ago on Easter Sunday. She was like a second mom to me.

She was very religious and always dreamed of going to Jerusalem.

When she passed away, my best friend became reckless and would try to drown his feelings in drinks and cover up the darkness inside him with the bright lights of clubs and women.

This went on for a couple years.

Eventually, my best friend hit beyond rock bottom to where he was living in his car with only a backpack of clothes and his mom’s ashes.

I let him stay with me and he turned his life around. He stopped going to bars. He started caring again.

He started saving money. He decided he would spread his mom’s ashes in Jerusalem.

Well, he got into a car accident last month and totaled his car.

Not his fault. Someone plowed through a red light. Medical bills and attorneys fees drained his savings.

But it’s okay. He told me how there was a bank error and someone deposited $3,000 into his bank account.

He’s all set to be in Jerusalem around Easter and my Hawaii trip was postponed.”

What’s the most wholesome thing you’ve done? It can be anything, really. Just something you did that was selfless and honorable.

And hey, if you don’t have a wholesome secret, there’s no time like the present to go out and create one!

Everybody needs some kindness in their lives, right?

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10+ Times People Forgot They Were Being Recorded by Security Cameras

Did you know we’re being videotaped most of the time we’re in public? And if you don’t realize that by now, well, surprise!

Sometimes, however, it’s easy to forget you’re on camera. Or, even if you’re aware, how good are those cameras good at spotting you anyway!

These 11 people DEFINITELY forgot they were being filmed… and some crazy shizz was caught.

Get ready to laugh and gasp and shake your head!

1. Wait… how did you let this happen? You just ate it?!

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2. Damn. That’s harsh!

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3. Hey, not a bad thing!

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4. Did you want to watch this or…?

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5. “Where did this wall come from!?”

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6. There’s so much going on here, I don’t even know where to start…

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7. People! Stop stealing shit! You’re being filmed EVERYWHERE.

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8. Sure….

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9. Yeah, I bet they’re really keeping track of that…

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10. You took an entire ANIMAL?!?

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11. Awwww… that’s sweet. ?

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Has anything like this ever happened to you?

Share in the comments!

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